Composers

John Joubert

Publisher: Novello & Co

First performance on Wednesday,11th August, 2010, given by the Choirs of Gloucester Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral and Worcester Cathedral, conducted by Adrian Partington, at the 283rd Three Choirs Festival.

The Preces and Responses are a case-study in effective word-painting. Surprising harmonic shifts inform an atmospheric, sensitive and highly colourful sequence. There is a very lovely Lord’s Prayer in which the meaning of the text is delicately enhanced by fugitive, questing harmonies. [It is] surely great fun to sing and …display[s] the depth of understanding and respect Joubert, a lifelong composer of liturgical music, has for its context.